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Quotes About Withdrawal

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
~ Anandamayi Ma
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
~ Anton Chekhov
We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.
~ Petro Poroshenko
The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
~ Kim Dae-jung
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
~ William Gurnall
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
~ David Brainerd
With his rearmament programme already under way, Hitler's logical next step was to disrupt the League of Nations. He told Hindenburg that it was so firmly anchored in the Diktat of Versailles that it resembled nothing if not a ganging-up by the victors to ensure that the spoils and booty of the World War were exacted from the vanquished. He would have cooperated with the League if they had accepted Germany as an equal; but as they would not, he proposed to withdraw on October 14, 1933.
~ David Irving
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
~ Ronald Reagan
I don't want nothing to do with y'all, I just stay home. I do drugs, lay around and take care of my family, that's it.
~ Sean Price
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
~ Pete Wentz
Albright and Biegman told Janvier that while the status quo was untenable and a more effective and robust UNPROFOR required, she could not accept a withdrawal from safe areas, nor could she accept abandoning weapons collection points. The mandate she said should be strengthened not reduced. As past experience indicated, only a resolute UN would get its way.
~ Jan Willem Honig
He himself felt frightened and alarmed when he reflected on the inevitability of old age, sickness and death. He became silent and withdrawn.
~ Jane Hope
What would happen if we withdrew? Ã¢â'¬Â¦ After the enormous expenditure which we have incurred in freeing this country from the withering despotism of the Turk, to hand it back to anarchy and confusion, and to take no responsibility for its development would be an act of folly and quite indefensible.
~ Janet Wallach
What happened to Kafka is the same as what happened to me. He withdrew, he went too far into solitude and knew he must have known, you never come back from there.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me: he withdrew he went too far into solitude and knew — he must've known — you never come back from there
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I don the robe of hermit without a cry.
~ Richard Matheson
Did you know, Robert, that, in extreme unction, the seven centers of the body—covering the vital organs—are anointed to assist the dying person to withdraw vitality from those organs in preparation for complete withdrawal through the silver cord? And absolution of the dead was established to make certain that the silver cord is severed and all etheric matter withdrawn from the body.
~ Richard Matheson
Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.
~ Kate DiCamillo
She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.
~ Katie Fforde
I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn't want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn't want the questions.
~ Ken Kesey
I worried that if she were forced to say more, she might shrink farther away and disappear altogether.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Closed in the hidden room, I continued to disappear.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Peace and love no longer held dominion in San Francisco, Gaskin decided. "The information we got in San Francisco was that folks were buying into violence in a wholesale lot," he said in explaining his flock's mass departure. His apocalyptic vision extended to American cities in general. They were falling into brutishness and depravity. And the only solution, according to Gaskin, was to withdraw from their destructive vortex and lead a simple, communal life in the country.
~ David Talbot